¬The tables illustrate how many women and men in a nation in Europe were kept in prisons during a 90-year period starting from 1911.
Overall, while there was a gradual increase in the number of male prisoners, the opposite trend was true for their counterparts. Additionally, the rate of men sentenced to prisons were always much higher than that of women during the research period.
Regarding the first table, the number of male prisoners began at 25000 in 1911, which was over 4 times as high as that of female prisoners. This figure then slightly decreased to more than 20000 after a decade before experiencing a gradual rise to its beginning number in 1981. After which, it skyrocketed and reached the peak of nearly 35000 in 2000.
In 1911, there were 4500 females kept in prison, after which this number dramatically declined to approximately 1500 in 1961. However, the next decade saw an upward trend in the figure for female prisoners before witnessing its dive to the lowest point of 1000 in the final years.